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Guyanese Diaspora Foodways

Diaspora

โš  MORE GUYANESE LIVE ABROAD THAN IN GUYANA, by most estimates โ€” one of the highest emigration rates in the world. The concentrations: NEW YORK, above all Richmond Hill in Queens, which is effectively an Indo-Caribbean city quarter with its own roti shops, doubles, and West Indian groceries; TORONTO; LONDON; and Trinidad, Barbados, Suriname and Venezuela regionally. The food travelled intact and then changed: roti shops, pepperpot at Christmas in Brooklyn and Scarborough, black cake posted between countries, and a Caribbean grocery trade that supplies cassareep and green seasoning to three continents.

Atlas โ€” where and when

Communities and languages

  • Guyanese abroad community documented

Languages: Guyanese Creole English, English

What is recorded

  • Guyana has among the highest emigration rates in the world, and by most estimates more people of Guyanese origin live abroad than in Guyana. The principal concentrations are New York โ€” particularly Richmond Hill, Queens โ€” Toronto and London, with regional communities in Trinidad, Barbados, Suriname and Venezuela. documented

Related foodways

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  • migrated to American documented

    Richmond Hill in Queens, New York, is effectively an Indo-Caribbean quarter.

  • migrated to British Foodways documented

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